Tonight, Oklahoma is scheduled to execute Eddie Trice. He will be the first eight executions in the state this month. Oklahoma has 134 inmates on Death Row including include 74 whites, 43 African Americans, four Hispanics, and 11 Native Americans.

Linda Chavez, Bush’s nominee for the Department of Labor and Christie Whitman, slated to head the Environmental Protection Agency, are implicated in using undocumented immigrants as domestic laborers. Whitman had acknowledged in 1993 that she hired a Portuguese couple who were in the country illegally and failed to pay the requisite Social Security taxes.

Subsumed in the debate over her relationship with an undocumented immigrant is Chavez’s record on worker issues and her qualifications to head the Department of Labor. Chavez has opposed minimum wage increases, affirmative action, taken anti-union stands, and on the Lehrer News Hour last night, won the enthusiastic support of the head of the National Association of Manufacturers.

Today, we continue our talk with reporter Kevin McKiernan, the only reporter present during the 1975 shootings at the Pine Ridge Reservation that resulted in the deaths of two FBI agents and one Native American. In Sunday’s Los Angeles Times,’ McKiernan called on President Clinton to commute the life sentence of Native American activist Leonard Peltier.

Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan — What price would you pay not to kill another human being? At what point would you commit the offenses allegedly perpetrated by Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who was charged Wednesday with desertion and “misbehavior before an enemy?”